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Make-Believe Wife - By Kathleen Norris About A Young Girl Who Married Her Employer. CHAPTE ~~ os to feel that it wasn't per "y sate?" Hugh - said in his kindest, most natural voice, ; Her eyes widened again. "When did I feel that it wasn't!" "Yes." ! "For Bert?" / Well, and for you--"" - "But--but it was always safe for Bert as - long as I knew--as fonig 'as ~ didn't care!" she 'stam. mered, yy i "Yes. But then --hen did you begin to fel that even for you it wasn't safe, Bee?" "Why, but--but I never 4 that it wasn't!" Beatrice exclaim- ed. '""That--that ougk' to be me- gative enough!" she stammered with a nervous laugh. Hugh was too deeply conce:ned to concede it more than an ..x- fous smile, "You never--were troublod--by what you felt for Bert?" "No! no, I can't seem to make that clear to you," Beatrice cerns plained, speaking patiently. at first, and then - ith sudden ' it. "Well, it's what I want to think, dear," Hugh laughed briefly, with- out enjoyment. "It's what T want to think, God knows!" he said fer- vently. ' "But--but, then, you did- n't have tea with Bert 'at the Arms? Last week--whenever i was "Yesterday!" Beatrice supplied. They stared at each other a mom- ent. \ "Was that only yesterday?' "That's all!" she answered the question. "Yes, I did, Hugh, 'nd I telephoned him at vour mother's Iy. to be sure that he came '0 the Lamberts' horrible party," Leat- rice admi"ad. "Put 2e cause--"" She stopped short, and looked at him a mor at, a puzzled expres- 'sion on her face, as if she d.l not quite "now how to pro-ced. en she suddenly left her chal went to the big davenport that faced the green fers in tl) fire. place. 'Hugh, come here," ste di- rected. patting the seat beside her, en 1. was seated thers she took his hands, Her earnest face was close to his own, "Hugh there's something you don't seem to understand," she sald 'I'm--I'm married to you--I'm your wife. I adore you." He: laughed a litle shamefaced- ly.and his kind eyes filled 'th tears, i "Bee, you mustn't talk to that way, my dear. You'll me all up!" "I never thought of any other man's admirlag me, and it wouldn't have made any difference ff I had!* Beatrice pursued 'steadily. "You-talle about my-being a "'*+ T7ell, UT was young, I was I! fenced, I never had been deeply in love, or thought of myself as par- ticularly----what shall I say?" & floundered, half laughing and half vexed. "I hate the word sex; I hate the word passion--bh't you know what I mean?" she finished. "I do k-ow what you mean!" Hugh agreed. "It is one cf the things that n° "e me--" H> paus- ed, and shrugged eloquen!' * Is one of the things that make you the wonderful person you are!" he ald humbly, "This mer," Beatrice went . on, narrowing her eyes, staring in- to apace, "suddenly I woke u: I realized that I * .s a womar, that there were a lot of th' in the world that I had sort of well, taken for granted, that I ha to lose or to hold. I '+st--" "%3 looked at him innocently. "I just-- same alive," she explained youth fully. "And did Bert have some'hing to do with that, Bee?" "ugh .lis» tening attentively, asked presently, in a silen=~ ) "Oh, yes, it w 1 Loco! of Bort!" she answered unexpectedly u: he:zitatingly. : "1 see." . "I don't know that you do," Reatrice sald, with a speculative look. "But, anyway, it was be- cause Bert liked me so much--" che was continuing, when suddenly a more animated look came into her eyes, and she interrupted hers self. "And why *"wyt Ya like me?" she demanded with spiri. "I was right there under his [act al ithe timc; I was his storm 3 you were most anxious--you know th-*, "Tugh," she broke off to say accusingly-- 'you were mt an- xious to have him like me avd to have me like him; you would have. been heart-proken if we hadn't 1'%ed each other--'" Her argumen. tative, reproachful tone was firre- sist!ble. Hugh burst into the * rt. of laughter with which, a few hours ago, he might have far '=d himself done forever. Beatrice looked t him, still in- Jured, her reluctant, answering srile only faintly sympathetic. "I went out of my way to wake Bert Challoner like me!" sh said, aggrieved, "I didn't see it," Hugh exnlain- ed, sobered and repentant. "I only saw that he admired y u tremend- ously and that it was making a man of him. I only reme~lered that I am twice your age and that he was your natural companion-- yor playmate--'" 'Oh, for Heaven's sake stop talking as if I was trotting sbout in a romper, with a sand shovel. FH ~h! Tf you'd lir'~n to me--" Beatrice pleaded. "Go on, "rar!" "Well, the time came wher I did ses that Bert had got" she dis- m° sed it sv ~rbly, with a sug "had 1 sort of boyish ervsh on me." - Beatrice continued. "At first 1 was going to tell you because I thought §t might please 3 « --" me k | less," she conceded. Of | She hesitated, eyeing him square- "And then when did yet becin ly "Please me!" Hugh said faintly. "I thought it might. If I had a daughter by a first marriage, end she got a terrible ¢2se a y+ I'd be perfectly delighted!" Beauice sald firmly. "It's imposible for you to con- ceive o' 'ealousy----" Hugh mur mured, as if to himself. "Yes, and it's impossible for you to conceive of not being Jealous!" she retorted. 'Buf, anyway, when I did see that Bert liked me, and that I had a s ° of--well, influ- ence over him," Beatrice pursued, modestly, "then I thought of soxe- thing I could do for -you, thought, . 'The one thing Hugh wants in this world is to have Bert happy and tuey!' And IT be- gan to talk to.him about pulling himself together and amounting to something--"" "I saw it!" "Well," she concededly, "I thought I did. Ang then the great --the great surprise came--'" Bea- trice finished, eyeing him with a sort of quiet childish triumph in- finitely charming. "What great surprise?" Hugh atked, elevating his eyebrows, "This is what we were going to tell you at Mrs, I.-mbert's if you hadn't gone so--so crazy, Hugh," she upbraided him. 'And veriaps it Aileen hadn't been there," she finished, with a faint, thougktful frown, ' "And what 1g 1t?" "Why, that Bert tried fo: the Kreutzmann Memorial Prize him. goes she announced momerious- y. "Bert--wbh-!!" Hugh sald feeb- "Bert himself--~'" alone, drew plans for the Kreutzmann!" 1 t- rice sald triumphantly, "How do you mean?" father asked sharply. "Well--well,"" her words began to tumble out eagerly. 'He taiked to me about it--oh, months ago. He's done plans. And he hid scme really wonderful ideas in tnem, too, Hugh!" Beatrice said enthus- iastically, reading aright the skep- tical look in the older man's eyes. "Bert!" Hugh sa'! agalp stup- idly, "Yes!" She was youthfully elate, "Hugh, didn't you ever guess?" she demanded, "Guess! Good Heavens!" "I say that Bert did it all alone," Beatric~ amended, suddenly ser- fous. "He "'dn't--quite, Young Fairfax--who wes with you i. 'ae business for 2 while, and ther. went into exterior decorating--helped him. T° y weren't any such pians as yours, Hugh," she hastaned to say.. 'But really--really they. were remarkably good! And mneoh cheaper, Hugh." [" "But money wasn't a corgldera- tion," he reminded her, wit:: the artist's - quick; jealous sensitive ness. "I know it wasn't. help influencing don't you think?" "I suppose 80." But he » nor thinking of what he sald. Ttere was the dawning of a fond, pioud, amazed smile in his eyes. "And now do you see why I hid your plans, Hugh?" she asked. "No," he answered, still bewild- ered looking 'at her patiently, "Why, because I'm your wife, and because your happiness is t} one thing In the world 1 cai ebout," Bee sald, "And I belle ed that Bert's plans would have n chance against your plans!" "But--my dear child--my dea child," Hugh stammered." Yo! couldn't destroy all the plans tha were to be sent in! Why, almos five hundred firms, all over th world, are competing for I prize!" + "I know it," she agred calmly "But none of them will be as gool as ypurs!" Hugh smiled, but it was shabb smile, and he put his hand over hi eyes suddenly, as though the lead ant big room, with its twinkli breakfast table and its flowers an(: sunshiny windows hurt him. "You--you little idiot!" he sal thickly. "I know I am!" she assented, (. little timidly, not quite sure of hi feeling. "'But--but- I did it sud denly, Hugh, on an impulse--ju looking at them, an" thinking ho wonderful they were!" i "I see!" Hugh said. "It 'vould--it would make yov happier to have Bert get it, would n't it?" Beatrice asked, encour aged, "It would mean work fo. him, Hugh, and success, and. thal he was proud of himself--" "I see--" Hugh said vaguely. looking at her: "You've sald over and over thaf* you didn't care a rap ahout it! Beatrice reminded him, faintly anxious. Instead of answering he narrow ed his eyes on her penitently. "Bee, I've been such a fool!" MW, sald. "We've all been fools, more of "But Hug! I couldn't be humble--I cculdn be patient--Ilast night, with Af.e smiling at me so triumphantly, she ple~"ed. "No, no. wrong!" "I was an idiot ever to thin} that stealing your plans would ge us anywhere{" she said. "Sm then, last night, Hugh, when yot were so cold, so cruel to me," Dea: trice went on, "something just seemed to snap in my head--I! went crazy. I hadn't failed, I hadn' done anything wrong, and to have you suspect me--to have you think--"" She was getting excited again. "I'm so sorry Bee!" he said sim P:rt's But it can't the commliitee, I see that." I wal" ply. For a minute she was silent, he {fingers tight in his, her shoulder ' azainst his, aad her ¢ 3 averte "Hugh, something bappenel to me In that room last night," ghe be gan again suddenly. that took my. soul right out .f me, and tw'-ted it, and put it back again--one great enormous ache. . "I cime allve--"' she said, in the silence, . "There, in that study," her voice went on presently. "T knew what you meant to me. I was----sudden. 1y, Hugh---jealous, More jealous than you'd ever been, I think! hated Bert because he wa ow son, because you'd adored him from the first moment of his life, I loathed Afleen because she is. of your oldest friends--beca she was Alice's friend, I thoug! of Alice, and it suffocated me." (To be continued) (Copyright, ""*8, by Kathl Norris.) Ip -- STOCK BROKERS BACK FROM U.S. T0 STAND TRIAL Milton am! Ira Janis Have Sixty Charges Against Them Toronto, April 16.--Facing to- gether 63 charges of fraud, false pretences and receiving stolen goods, Milton and Ira Janis of dominfon-wide reputation were brought back to Toronto yester- day. They came under police guard from Newark, N.J., after with- drawing an appeal from an ad- verse decision to a habeas corpus application which was entered fol- lowing their being ordered extra- dited. The Janis brothers were the op- erators of the defunct Toronto Securities corporation of 65 Ade- laide street. While no definite fig- ure has yet been set, they are al- leged to have swindled Canadians out of something in the nejgh- borhood of a quarter of a million dollars by means of operations in Dominion Land stock, a 'security' of which it has been said hat there was "not even a hole in the ground." ' Since the collapse of the Janis brothers' company in October of 1927, the department of the at- torney-general has pursued the case to the end, carrying through to the high federal courts of the United States the efforts to have the two d men rel d into the hands of Ontario authoritios to face trial, ; Milton Janis, 31 years old, faces in all 30 charges and his brother Ira, 34 years old, faces 33. They are to appear in police court today for remand. They spent yesterday in the cells at Court street station WATERWAYS URGED BY JAMES V. GOOD U.S. Secretary of War Paints Glowing Picture of Future Chicago, April 15, -- James W. Good, Secretary of War, came back to Chicago recently to paint.a glow- ing picture for the home folks of wealth and opportunity at the city's doors, and to predict a great future for inland waterway transportation, with. the realization of a nine-foot channel from here to the gulf. He went back into history millions of years, and told of how the huge glaciers, moving down on this con- tinent from Canada, had scooped out. the beds of the Great Lakes, laid out the drainage scheme of the continent, and deposited fertile soil that would have been of less value to the terri- tory of the north. "Here, at the apex of the American Mediterranean," he said, in address ing the Bankers' Club of x "the wealth and opportunities of the world's richest continent are spread at its feet. Nature's: highways lead to it. The Great Lakes and St. Law- rence river extend the generous hand of invitation to us; they faitly be- seech us to co-operate in executing the almost trivial works that will concert: them into a new Mediter- ranean for the new continent, It is not even a difficult or an expensive engineering task to which they chal- lenge us. It is far simpler and less difficult than building the Panama Canal" YOU POOR KID, WHY ARE YOU SO SKINNY? 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"| United "States is PLAYS A PRETTY COBOURG GIRL I5 BADLY HURT IN BRIDGE COLLAPSE Car Went Into Creek and Girl Had Hand Amputated Toronto, April 15.~When the steel bridge across the Etobicoke creek, on the Dundas highway, be- tween Islington , and Dixie, col- lapsed at 12.30 am. Sunday, Miss May Schrum, 21, of Cobourg, who was one of four occupants In a car which was passing over the bridge at the time, had her right hand so badly injured that it was later found necessary to amput- ate the member, The car with its four occupants fell a distance of 30 feet' with the floor of the bridge to the level of the water, Steel girders fell 'across the car and Miss Schrum'of 49 Alexander street, Toronto, had her arm crushed between the. side of the car and a girder. It was later found necessary to -amputate her right hand, The other occupants. Cora Hilderley, aged 20, a pesident of the Y,WiC.A. at 674 Dundas street west, Toronto; .Angus Me- Kinnon, 31 Ellsworth avenue and J. M. -Lount,- 18 -Thornciiffe avenue, escaped with bruises. Thére were no eéye-witnésses of the collapse of the bridge, but ac- cording to McKinnon it happened without a second's warning, "A car passed us and went over the bridge just ahead of us," he stated last night, "We drove on and did not know that anything was wrong until suddenly we fell with a crash It was so sudden that we did not know what had happened. We were all khocked unconscious or partially so, I don't remember really what hap- pened." i MEXICAN REVOLT HAS GOLLAPSED Debel Generals Desert and Flee to the United States El Paso, Texas, April 15.--Ap- parenlty the Escobar-Caraveo revo- lution in Mexico is complete collapse. Generals have deserted and fled to the United States and reports reaching this city say troops are rapidly drqp- ping from the ranks and officers of minor rank are going oOvgr in droves to the federals, Guerilla warfare is expected to be the ultimate result of this dis- integration of the rebel forces, and (for that reason the United States has lined troops along the border to prevent raids dcross the line. Gen. Jose Escobar, commander- in-chief of the revolution, is at Agua Prieta and his flight into the expected mom- entarily. Gen, Caraveo is near Casa Grandes with his force of rebels dwindling rapidly. The rebels have apparently given up their siege of Naco, Sonora, only a handful of troops having been left there. Re- ports are that what rebels are left are moving toward Guaymas, but the federals have landed large forces by sea to repulse them, Quenching His Fire (Everybody's Weekly) He--I am burning with love for ou. She--Oh, don't make a fuel of yourself. 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